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• Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else

  • HN comments

• Inside Europe’s largest cannabis manufacturing facility | Sifted

• Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

• The nevada national security site pt 1

• Blue Origin New Shepard fails during first stage ascent, capsule survives

Horseshit

• Woman arrested after protester holds anti-monarchy sign in Edinburgh

• Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030

• Gen Z’s Worship of the Unabomber

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• What’s wrong with technocracy?

• The Hypocrisy of the New York Times on the Queen vs. Gorbachev | Newsbusters

• China's Surveillance State Will Be the West's Future, Too

Gun control

• Visa, Mastercard, AmEx to start categorizing gun shop sales

Musk

• Tesla's drive to keep Musk's battery promise

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• The Biden administration’s lawfare against Trump allies continues – The New Neo

• With more than 40 Trump lawyers singled out for ethics complaints and even more facing charges, legal experts joke MAGA now stands for ‘Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.’

• GOP senators led by Graham slam Trump Jan. 6 pardon promise

• On September 11, Kamala Harris Likens Trump Supporters to the 9/11 Terrorists.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Xinjiang lockdown: Chinese censors drown out posts about food and medicine

• Molecular evidence for SARS-CoV-2 in samples from patients since late 2019

• UK Announces it Will No Longer Offer COVID Jabs to Children Under 12 Amid New Data That Shows Risks Outweigh Benefits.

• What Makes Brain Fog So Unforgiving

• The Mystery of Why Some People Don’t Get Covid

• New Zealand scraps mask and vaccine mandates

• NY mask mandate lifted on subway and public transportation, Gov. Hochul announces

• EU Auditors accuse Commission of refusing to release vaccine negotiation details

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• How Amsterdam ceased to be gay heaven

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Sham investigations silence professors at Central Florida and Princeton

  • HN comments

• When Teens Find Misinformation, These Teachers Are Ready

• (June 2022) Who Cares About Diversity? - by Michael Huemer - Fake Noûs

• A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever for Students to Cheat

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Instagram Stumbles in Push to Mimic TikTok, Internal Documents Show

• Google spins out secret hi-speed telecom project called Aalyria

• The Buying Mania for Old Songs Has Come to a Sudden and Ugly End

TechSuck

• EFF to Ninth Circuit: Social Media Content Moderation Is Not “State Action”

• Dump these small-biz routers, says Cisco, we won't patch their flawed VPN

• Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box

  • HN comments

• Book Excerpt The Birth of the Modem World

  Of course, we should avoid an overly romantic portrayal of this period. The political potential of BBS technology was also embraced by white power groups, militias, anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, and other right-wing extremists. Some of the earliest coverage of BBSs on television focused on the adoption of BBSs by neo-Nazi groups in the United States and Canada. Misogyny, homophobia, and white supremacy plagued the modem world, just as they do today’s social media platforms.

• What yesterday’s Apple satellite announcement really means | I, Cringely

• What’s Behind Those AI Art Images?

Crypto con games

• Crypto collapse: Celsius, Voyager, SkyBridge

• Investors Sue Treasury Department for Blacklisting Crypto Platform Tornado Cash

• A Bad Year for Crypto Is a Bad One for Crypto Miners

• White House estimates coin mining in Texas will require 47 new nuclear reactors

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Hedge funds build biggest bet against Italian debt since 2008

• Goldman’s Apple Card business has a surprising subprime problem

• Railroads Prepping for Strike Action

  • American Freight Railroads Propose Limiting Sensitive Cargo as Strike Looms

  Freight railroads said they are planning to halt the transport of hazardous materials and sensitive cargoes, such as chemicals used in fertilizer and chlorine for water purification, as they continue negotiations with two labor unions. Railroads have informed customers that they may stop accepting certain types of freight, including bulk shipments, beginning Monday to avoid materials being unattended or unsecured in case of a work stoppage.

• FTC Investigating Amazon’s Acquisition of iRobot

  • HN comments

Shortages

• Sulphuric acid: the next resource crisis

• Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage | Hacker News

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• We should link student loan forgiveness to national service

• State Constitutions as a Defense Against Election Subversion

• Do the seeds of democracy’s destruction lie within its own defense?

• Network Analysis of Partisanship

• Poll: Large minority of Americans supports unelected leaders, firing judges

  About one in three Americans prefers strong unelected leaders to weak elected leaders and says presidents should be able to remove judges over their decisions, according to the latest findings from our Axios-Ipsos Two Americas Index.

  And roughly a third said the federal government should be able to prosecute members of the news media who make offensive or unpatriotic statements.

• Do the Supreme Court’s Low Approval Ratings Show it is Undergoing a “Legitimacy Crisis”? The Court’s popularity has indeed fallen. But its relatively low approval ratings are neither unprecedented, nor worse than those of the other branches of government.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Federal judge halts Arizona ban on filming police within 8 feet

  • HN comments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US will push other nations to abandon destructive anti-satellite tests

• Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports

• Benghazi: Ten Years Later And Forgotten - Victory Girls Blog

• Pentagon Tells Struggling Army Soldiers, Families To Apply For Food Stamps.

• Navy Orders High-Level Outside Investigation of Seal Course

World

• Republican protesters arrested at King Charles proclamations

• Brussels offers to reduce Northern Ireland border checks

• Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energy prices to blame

• European Manufacturers Reel from Russian Gas Shutoff

• Swedish election: far right makes gains but overall result on knife-edge

• Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III as its head of state

• Being a republican in Britain used to be perfectly respectable

• Man arrested after asking “who elected him?” at the proclamation of King Charles

• Montenegro Wrestles with Massive Cyberattack

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin is finished. The Ukrainians have him on the ropes as victory looms

• Ukraine Retakes Towns Within 50km Of Russian Border Amid Rumors Putin To Issue Full Declaration Of War

• On the eastern front, a week of Ukrainian success and Russian failures

• Ukrainian forces have penetrated Russian lines to a depth of up to 70 kilometers

• Ukraine's 2nd Largest City Plunged Into Total Darkness As Russia Strikes Key Infrastructure

• Ukraine troops reach border with Russia in Kharkiv region

• Russia is facing defeat in Putin’s gas war against the European Union.

• 'Without gas or without you?: Zelensky to Russia as Ukraine sweeps northeast

• 'There's no talk of November anymore' Moscow's plans to hold 'referendums' on annexing Ukrainian territories have been 'put on hold indefinitely' — Meduza

• Ukraine: Russian military command has suspended the sending of new units

• Ukraine Strikes Multiple Targets INSIDE Russia, More Deputies Call for Putin’s Ouster.

• Ukraine Invades Russia?

Health / Medicine

• Plastic might be making us obese

  • HN comments

• Investors Bet Ketamine Treatment Will Revolutionize Mental-Health Care

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Grocery bag comparisons of environmental impact

  • HN comments

• When Summer Becomes the Season of Danger and Dread

• Megadrought in the American south-west: a climate disaster unseen in 1,200 years

• When Sri Lanka Banned Synthetic Fertilizers, the Country Imploded